Photoshop 5.0 is the program. The newer versions 
may do this a little differently, but the making 
of the banner should not be that difficult.

Start with whatever background color that you 
want. In this case black.

Go to the filter/render/lens flare and that is how 
you make the corona light effect.

In regards to the text, add it as a layer and 
switch it to partial transparancy (I think 60 
percent in this case). I also in this case 
selected inner glow and inner bevel (depth of 
bevel was modified to get the level of distortion 
I wanted). Color I believe was grey.

In regards to the gally image, took a large image 
scan and pasted it on a transparent canvas. I then 
cut away the white space and then resized the cel 
to fit it on the banner. I then dragged and 
dropped her onto the banner itself.

Then flatten the whole thing and convert to a jpg 
to reduce size to something managable (13k in this 
case I believe).

Let me know if I can be of any other help,
Marcus